Iman Issa News November 17, 2024 – February 17, 2025 Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York February 7 – May 11, 2025 Iman Issa: Das Spiel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden May 3 – September 21, 2025 Iman Issa: A Game, or So You May Think, Art Institvte Chicago, Chicago Proxies, with a Life of their Own, RODEO London, 2022 ΠΛΗΡΕΞΟΥΣΙΑ, ΜΕ ΜΙΑ ΔΙΚΗ ΤΟΥΣ ΖΩΗ, RODEO Piraeus, 2022 ανάβασις*, RODEO Piraeus, 2022 ΨΥΧΟΣAΒΒΑΤΟ - ΜΕΡΟΣ I ALL SOULS DAY - PART I, RODEO Piraeus, 2019 WE, RODEO London, 2018 Heritage Studies, RODEO London, 2017 The Chicken and The Egg, The Chicken, RODEO London, 2015 Lexicon, RODEO London, 2015 All That Shines Ain’t No Gold, RODEO Istanbul, 2012 Constellation (or the inspiration show), RODEO Istanbul, 2011 Material, RODEO Istanbul, 2011 Can Altay – Iman Issa, RODEO Istanbul, 2010 Texts Iman Issa, How is an object changed by its context?, Iman Issa, Spike Art Magazine, 2020 A Questionnaire on Decolonization, Renée Green and Iman Isaa, October, 2020 Proxies, with a Life of Their Own, Iman Issa, e-flux Journal, 2020 Iman Issa, Monopol Magazine, 2020 Iman Issa, Material for 2018, David Trigg, Art Monthly, 2018 Iman Issa, interview by Andrew Weiner, BOMB Magazine, 2017 Murmur in the White Cube, Laura Vallés, Concreta, 2015 Iman Issa, Radical Subtarction, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, BIDOUN, 2011 Solo Shows 2025 Iman Issa: A Game, or So You May Think, Art Institvte Chicago, Chicago Iman Issa: Das Spiel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden 2024 Photograph—(Un)Like (M)Any Other(s), carlier | gebauer, Berlin 2022 Proxies, with a Life of their Own, RODEO London ΠΛΗΡΕΞΟΥΣΙΑ, ΜΕ ΜΙΑ ΔΙΚΗ ΤΟΥΣ ΖΩΗ, RODEO Piraeus Proxies, with a Life of Their Own, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna 2020 Proxies, with a Life of Their Own, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck 2019 Surrogates, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen Book Of Facts, daadgalerie, Berlin 2018 Material for 2018, Spike Island, Bristol 2017 Material, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld Heritage Studies, RODEO London 2016 Reasonable Characters in Familiar Place, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon 2015 Parables, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow Iman Issa: Heritage Studies, Perez Art Museum, Miami Material, 21er Haus, Vienna Heritage Studies, MACBA, Barcelona Lexicon, RODEO London 2013 Post: Iman Issa (curated by Jacob Fabricius), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen Iman Issa, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm 2012 Material, Mercer Union, Toronto 2011 Material, RODEO Istanbul 2010 Triptychs, Present Future, Artissima 17, Turin Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld 2008 Making Places, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo 2003 Proposal For A Crystal Building, Gezira Arts Center, Cairo 2002 Lights, Gezira Arts Center, Cairo Group Shows 2024 Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York I myself, I also dance. Summer dream prelude to Hannah Arendt, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover Avant-Garde and Liberation, mumok, Vienna desde los azules, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection, National Gallery Prague, Prague Skins and Folds, Tabakalera, San Sebastián It’s your turn, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Paths of Understanding History, IE Creativity Center, Segovia 2023 DISPATCHES postcard project, M HKA (Museum Of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Antwerp Between the Window and the Door, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík Public Matters, Belvedere, Vienna No Feeling is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Alexandria – Past Futures, Mucem, Marseille Aimless. Confronting Imago Mundi, Es Baluard Museu, Palma Under the Influence of the Ellipse, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin 2022 Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, Fort Kochi, Kochi The collection: dialogues, Volume 1: The History between persistence and criticism, Collegium, Arévalo Alexandria – Past Futures, Bozar, Brussels steirischer herbst’ 22, Graz Strange. Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville CONDITIONS AND FRAMEWORKS: INFRASTRUCTURE AS FORM AND MEDIUM, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna Substance – SUBSTANCES, Collegium, Arévalo ανάβασις*, RODEO Piraeus Nations by Artists, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto 2021 Understudies: I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin New Monuments, Callirrhoë, Athens When I Count, There Are Only You…, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah What If a Journey…, Autostrada Biennale, Third Edition, Prizren Radically Naive / Naively Radical, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerpen Lives of Forms, Z33, Hasselt 2020 Studio Berlin, Organized by Boros Foundation, Berghain, Berlin Long Live Modern Movement, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2019 Lachen / Laughing, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck In Free Fall, Caixa Forum, Barcelona Tirana Patience, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana Art Berlin Week 2019, Berlin Art Week, Berlin Past Continuous. Es Baluard Collection, ESPAI, Castelló Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Desert X, Coachella Valley, California ΨΥΧΟΣAΒΒΑΤΟ - ΜΕΡΟΣ I ALL SOULS DAY - PART I, RODEO Piraeus 2018 REVOLUTIONIZE, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev Memory Matters, Skissernas Museum, Lund WE, RODEO London Beaufort Triennial, Ostende Always Different, Always the Same: An Essay on Art and Systems, Bünder Kunstmusuem Chur, Chur Enchanted Bodies: Fetish for Freedom, GAMec, Bergamo Borås International Sculpture Biennial, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås Space Edits, Beirut Art Center, Beirut The Way Things Run (Der Lauf der Dinge), Part 1: Loose Ends Don’t Tie, PS120, Berlin But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan Statues Also Die, Museo Egizio, Turin Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2017 Last Night’s Fortune Teller, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin Pompei@ Madre. Materia Archeologica, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples The Other Face of the Moon, Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju Plurivers, La Panacée, Montpellier Etre Moderne: La MoMA a Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris A Poet*hical Wager, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm Extra Citizen, Extra City, Antwerp Specular Windows, 21er Haus, Vienna Unfinished Conversations: New Works from the Collection, MoMA, New York Dispositiv (1) Fortlaufend, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin 2016 Kaleidoscope: The Vanished Reality, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford Aichi Triennale: A Rainbow Caravan, Aichi Arts Centre, Aichi But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Revolution Will Not Be Gray, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Wanderlust, High Line Commission, The High Line, New York 2015 Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Open Systems (curated by Sarah Mendelsohn), WUK, Vienna All Watched Over (curated by Tina Kukielski), James Cohan Gallery, New York Desires and Necessities (curated by Bartomeu Mari), MACBA, Barcelona The Chicken and The Egg, The Chicken, RODEO London Nine Artists, Stevenson, Cape Town What are you doing, object? (curated by Nile Sunset Annex), Gypsum, Cairo Mythologies, 3rd Mardin Biennale, Mardin When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out, Old Bronx Borough Courthouse, New York Gallery 3010, Sfeir Semler Gallery, Beirut Sharjah Biennial 12 (curated by Eungie Joo), Sharjah 2014 Pier 54 (curated by Cecilia Alemani), The High Line, New York Proposals on Monumentality (curated by İpek Ulusoy Akgül), Green Art Gallery, Dubai A Glass Darkly (curated by Nav Haq), Stroom Den Haag, The Hague Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation, New York The Pursuit of Public Happiness? (curated by Christine Würmell), Arratia Beer, Berlin Meeting Points 7: Ten Thousand Wiles And A Hundred Thousand Tricks (curated by WHW), CIC, Cairo Meeting Points 7: Ten Thousand Wiles And A Hundred Thousand Tricks (curated by WHW), Institute for African Studies, Moscow Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics (curated by Andres Kreuger and Nav Haq), M HKA, Antwerp 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin Tea with Nefertiti (curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath), Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich Conceptual and Applied III (curated by Renate Wiehager and Luca Trevisani), Daimler Contemporary, Berlin Meeting Points 7: Ten Thousand Wiles And A Hundred Thousand Tricks (curated by WHW), Beirut Art Center, Beirut Waiting for the Wind, Experimenter, Kolkata Meeting Points 7: Golden Heights Estate (curated by WHW), Para Site, Hong Kong Accented (curated by Murtaza Vali), Maraya Art Center, Sharjah Buildering: Misbehaving the City (curated by Steven Matijcio), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Marrakesh Biennale (curated by Hicham Khalidi), Marrakech 2013 The Fifth Dimension (curated by Monika Szewczyk), Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago Tea With Nefertiti (curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath), IVAM, Valencia Meeting Points 7: Ten Thousand Wiles And A Hundred Thousand Tricks (curated by WHW), M HKA, Antwerp Meeting Points 7: Ten Thousand Wiles And A Hundred Thousand Tricks (curated by WHW), Gallery Nova, Zagreb Last Year At Marienbad Redux (curated by James Voorhies), EFA Project Space, New York Utopia Starts Small (curated by Yilmaz Dziewior and Angelika Nollert), Fellbach Triennial of Small Sculpture, Fellbach Monuments (curated by Mark Sladen), Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore Where Did She Go? (curated by Tensta Konsthall), Stockholm Music & Arts, Stockholm Homeworks 6 (curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh), Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Speak Memory, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York Le Théoréme de Néfertiti (curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath), Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris 2012 Tea With Nefertiti (curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath), Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha PhotoCairo 5 (curated by Mia Jankowicz), CIC, Cairo Permanent Record for Future Investigation (curated Kamrooz Aram), Green Art Gallery, Dubai Material Information (curated by Juan A. Gaitán), Permanenten - West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen All That Shines Ain’t No Gold, RODEO Istanbul Unrest: Revolt Against Reason, Apexart, New York Ruptures: Forms of Public Address, 41 Cooper Gallery, New York The Political Is Collective – Factions, Art Hall Passagen, Linköping Remainder (curated by Alex Ross), Hilary Crisp, London When It Stops Dripping From The Ceiling, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris 5th Bucharest Biennale (curated by Anne Barlow), Alert Studio, Bucharest The Ungovernables (curated by Eungie Joo), Second New Museum Triennal, New Museum, New York A State Of Fluidity, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Transmediale, Berlin Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies (curated by Maria Lind), Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm 2011 Constellation (or the inspiration show), RODEO Istanbul Short Stories: Iman Issa and Ben Schumacher (curated by Isla Leaver-Yap), SculptureCenter, New York Propaganda By Monuments (curated by Mia Jankowicz and Clare Butcher), CIC, Cairo The Menasa Studio Dispatches (curated by The Island), Art Dubai Special Projects, Dubai 2010 Dwelling In Travel, Center for Contemporary Art – The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv Why Not, Palace of Arts, Cairo Adelaide International 2010, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide The Night Of Future Past, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto Can Altay – Iman Issa, RODEO Istanbul A New Formalism, Bidoun Projects, Art Dubai, Dubai 2009 Seeing Is Believing, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin Total Erinnerung, 3. Fotofestival, Manheim – Ludwigshafen – Heidelberg Trapped In Amber, UKS, Oslo 2008 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju CAIROSCAPE, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin Self Storage, The Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco “She Doesn’t Know It But She’s Dressed For The H-Bomb”, Tank.TV, London Summer Screen, Spacex, Exeter CAIROSCAPE, Cultural Center of the City of Athens, Athens Look Around, Galleria Artericambi, Verona 2007 Memorial To The Iraq War, ICA, London MFA THESIS SHOW, Columbia University, New York 2006 Philip, Project Art Center, Dublin First Year MFA Show, Columbia University, New York 2005 PHOTOCAIRO 3, CIC, Cairo 2004 Mediterraneo, MACRO, Rome 2003 Wasla Contemporary Art Workshop (curated by Mai Abu ElDahab), South Sinai Open Studio, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo Going Places: A Project For Public Buses (curated by Mai Abu ElDahab), Cairo 2002 Dar El-Hiwar, Goethe Institute, Cairo 2001 The Opening, Falaki Gallery, Cairo Nominations 2017Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, New York2012Han Nefkenz Foundation MACBA Award for Contemporary Art, BarcelonaAbraaj Group Arts Prize, Dubai2010Platform Garanti CAC, IstanbulYoung Arab Theatre Fund Production Grant, BrusselsAir Antwerpen Residency, Antwerp2009The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Grant, Beirut2005Martin Birnbaum Fellowship Award, New York